(a) The authority and responsibility for administering this article shall be with the mayor.
(b) The mayor may delegate any of these functions, duties, and powers to employees of the city or to boards of such employees, including functions, duties, and powers with respect to investigating, conciliating, hearing, determining, ordering, certifying, reporting or otherwise acting as to any work, business, or matter under this article. The mayor shall be rule prescribe such rights of appeal from the decisions of his hearing examiners to other hearing examiners or to other officers in the city to boards of officers or to himself, as shall be appropriate and in accordance with the law.
(c) All executive departments and agencies shall administer their programs and activities relating to housing and urban development in a manner affirmatively to further the purposes of this article and shall cooperate with the mayor to commence such educational and conciliatory activities as will further the purpose of this article. He shall call conferences of persons in the housing industry and other interested parties to acquaint them with the provisions of this article and his suggested means of implementing it, and shall endeavor with their advice to work out programs of voluntary compliance and of enforcement.
(Ord. No. 026-1993, § 8, 4-13-93)